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Is zero a fraction?

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Hint: Every rational number is a fraction. A rational number is one which can be written in the form of pq where q0 or it can be defined as a number that can be expressed as an integer or the quotient of an integer divided by a nonzero integer.

Complete step by step answer:
A fraction is used to define the portion/part of the whole thing. A fraction has two parts, namely numerator and denominator. The number on the top is called the numerator, and the number on the bottom is called the denominator.
Example: 37 is a fraction
Here 3 is a numerator and 7 is a denominator.
We can conclude that zero is a fraction by following statements:
zero divided by any number is equal to zero.
For example: 01=0,02=0,03=0
So zero can be written as a fraction.
Every rational number is a fraction and 0 is a rational number as it can be written in the form of pq. 0 can be written as 01 , 02, 03 so it is a rational number. Hence it is a fraction.
Hence by the above two statements we can conclude that 0 is a fraction.

Note:
We know that zero comes under the whole number which comes under the rational number and all rational numbers are fractions. A fraction is any number which is of the form ab where both a and b are whole numbers and b0. Whereas rational numbers are of the form pq where p and q are integers. One point is to be noted that for 0 to be a fraction we can’t write it in denominator as for fraction the denominator should always not equal to zero.
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